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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70444#Comment_704442008-07-26T14:07:50-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00warrenellishttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2
Saturday Night Open Mic: tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what ...
Saturday Night Open Mic: tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70446#Comment_704462008-07-26T14:14:43-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Fauxhammerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27
YEP SITTING ON MY ASS IN MY BIG YELLOW PARLOR IS INFINITELY PREFERABLE TO GOING BERSERK IN SAN DIEGO, THANKS EVER SO MUCH
I canceled my trip out of worry, and that was stupid. I guess I'm still ...
I canceled my trip out of worry, and that was stupid. I guess I'm still scabby and raw over the missus getting sick.

So much for the restorative power of travel, booze, and bright, blinky lights. At least I'm not back to my shithole job until Thusday.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70447#Comment_704472008-07-26T14:22:44-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00foxtonguehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1815
Tonight I'm heading a group that's going to be part hosting a renegade lantern festival. I'm upset that the company who generally run it are abandoning it on its 20th anniversay. Everyone thinks the ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70448#Comment_704482008-07-26T14:22:58-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00buzzorhowlhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3628
I want to be a published writer in a year. I mean, OK, considering the amount of zines I've put out and unpaid reviews and articles I've done for other people's mags, I'm definitely a published ...
The only other thing on my mind is this: I've become very enamored of posting on twitter. At first, I was incredibly skeptical of the entire thing, but I've come to learn that my mind actually spits out twitter-appropriate thoughts on a very frequent basis. So yeah, I've been on there a week or so and posted about 200 times. But this is making me worry--does everyone following me secretly hate me? I mean, I'm doing what I want to be doing with the service, and it really shouldn't matter if no one follows me on there, right? But I still worry.

Course, after Matt Fraction posted something like 50 times in an hour last night, I felt a bit better.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70449#Comment_704492008-07-26T14:24:51-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00sterlingspiderhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3240
I'm packing for Pennsic.
Actually that's not entirely true, I'm frantically sewing the last few things I need to sew, praying that my hedgehogs and tarantulas don't spontaneously combust or have a ...
Actually that's not entirely true, I'm frantically sewing the last few things I need to sew, praying that my hedgehogs and tarantulas don't spontaneously combust or have a gang fight set to the West Side Story soundtrack while in other peoples care, and obsessively going over the list of stuff that needs to be packed to make sure I didn't miss anything.

I am hungry, tired, and frazzled; but in 36 hours I expect to be wearing funny clothing, stinking of campfire, and oozing with metabolized home-brewed mead from every pore so I think it'll be OK.

I fully expect to be doing the same exact thing one year from today and I wouldn't have it any other way.

If anyone wants to see my arse they'll just have to come to Pennsic too I guess.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70450#Comment_704502008-07-26T14:27:55-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00MithrasAngelhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4087
I'm doing nothing other than trying to plan out the next six-twelve months of my life.
I want to find a different job (working for the government is starting to suck).
I want to move to ...
I want to find a different job (working for the government is starting to suck).I want to move to Phoenix.I want to get much better at playing electric guitar (on this latter, the tutorial programs I've tried to use haven't been very effective... I'm considering paying for lessons).

More immediately, I'm trying to decide what, if anything, I want to eat.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70452#Comment_704522008-07-26T14:28:34-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00FireThiefhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4086
I'm not in San Diego. I have been heard recently saying I'm not sure how much fun it would be. Maybe Chicago is the biggest con I could handle. That's mostly bullshit.
I know someone who writes ...
I know someone who writes for a review site, and this person is pretty annoying now as they think they're the hottest pot of shit around. Constantly talking about what "Joe Comic Writer/Illustrator" said. Also, this person will not hesitate to step in front of you in a conversation if someone prominent in comics steps up. Shit like that pisses me off.

Went to an art show last night. Want my friend to stop fucking around and illustrate a script. Sometimes I want to break light bulbs just to hear the pop-tinkle.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70456#Comment_704562008-07-26T14:34:39-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00El3mohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=280
Went to Comic Con and emerged unscathed and on-budget.
Way to many people. Didn't get to see any panels.
Got to buy a book from Wil Weaton, who is a good guy.
Missed seeing Kim Evey and the ...
Way to many people. Didn't get to see any panels.Got to buy a book from Wil Weaton, who is a good guy.Missed seeing Kim Evey and the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show people.

Lots of Light & Sculpture ideas came together for me this week.Started new project and very excited with it.

Tonight is good people, good food and pool/hotub.

I think, yes, definitely: WINNING!

See, I'm almost smiling.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70458#Comment_704582008-07-26T14:40:05-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Andre Navarrohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1561
Lost fifteen pounds, lost (most) of my hair and am currently happy. For now.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70459#Comment_704592008-07-26T14:40:24-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00struthersneilhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3770
In one year's time, I'd like to have some of my writing out there being read. I'd like to be out of this house, maybe, as I think it's choking us to death with radon-mutated mold. The rent is great ...
It's a frightening idea that in one year's time I'll be in much the same place I am now, doing much the same thing. Maybe with some savings--having some money in the bank would be nice. This month-to-month survival feels like stagnation, sometimes. But fuck that; you have to get on with it and get as much as possible out of it. When it comes to enjoying life, getting as much as I can out of it, I do alright. I could do better but I do alright. I share this life with a beautiful and tolerant girl and things are slowly coming together for us.

I will hold back on the arse picture for now as I fear it might be a bit of a turn-off. Nobody needs to see that. I haven't seen it in years.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70460#Comment_704602008-07-26T14:48:29-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00gdwesselhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=25
Well, I'm not at San Diego. I'm still here in Indianapolis working my arse off. I get no time to even breathe it seems.
I am in the midst of my big plan to be at Chicago 2009 tho with items to ...
I am in the midst of my big plan to be at Chicago 2009 tho with items to peddle, pitch, shill and sell. Oh, yes.

Too much else going on since last I checked in, including the apparent suicide of someone here in town known to a few other Whitechapellers. Which is kinda weird.

Next week, FIVE DAY VACATION (with the kids).

I gotta go smoke before Shift #2 of the day kicks in. Have fun everyone, I'll check in later.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70461#Comment_704612008-07-26T14:54:39-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00waniyetuwihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1987
Eating dinner, trying to choose between vodka, rum, and beer. Which one?
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70464#Comment_704642008-07-26T14:56:45-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00warrenellishttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2
Unless the vodka's in the freezer, choose beer.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70465#Comment_704652008-07-26T14:58:50-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00zanegraveshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4051
Next year? I'm going to be paid for doing something that I actually want to do.
Also, either get a BF or learn enough yoga to go down on myself, I'm not picky as to which.
And I'll have a ...
Also, either get a BF or learn enough yoga to go down on myself, I'm not picky as to which.

And I'll have a pony. But that's just to spite all those kids who want ponies: I, myself, do not actually want one.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70466#Comment_704662008-07-26T15:00:30-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00tedcrolandhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2106
My brother's birthday party officially starts in ten minutes. I have no idea how many people are showing up, but I know that a number of them will be friends, and another number will be people I'd ...
I'm worried about a friend. This friend tends to be very hard on them self, and recent events have made them sink. I really want to help this person--but I'm running out of ways how. I'm not about to walk away...I really just want them to feel better. I'm at a point where I'm not sure how.

Where I want to be...by this time next year, my ideal place would be living on my own in San Francisco, mostly done with my BA, looking for graduate programs. I'd have a steady job and able to support myself. Fucking pipe dream, maybe...I don't know how much I believe in it right now.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70468#Comment_704682008-07-26T15:05:15-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00FireThiefhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4086
I was in Indy the other night for that art show. Going there tomorrow to see the Dark Knight on IMAX. Apparently there's a con coming to Indy in November. Called the Midwest Comic Convention.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70470#Comment_704702008-07-26T15:08:46-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00BrianMowreyhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1709
"I’m drinking beer and watching NETWORK."
That's appropriate coincidence, Mr. Warren, for I just finally the first time ever watched Network last night; and when it was over, stunned, ...
That's appropriate coincidence, Mr. Warren, for I just finally the first time ever watched Network last night; and when it was over, stunned, transformed, my overriding thought was, "Shit This is the perfect science fiction movie".

Which is brilliant, since there's no science fiction in it. Which just reveals how peripheral the idea of fictional science is to science fiction. Network lifts away all the artifacts and living manifestations of universal human meaning so subtly over its course -- lures us along with the promise of clarity and reaffirmation, but leaves us staring down the faceless blank blaring madness of The New Society with absolutely no words of protest left in our throats -- brings us, finally, teetering on the brink of philosophical apocalypse, casually shoves us over -- And! -- We fall limply back into the real word, instantly comforted by the familiar signpost of a children's cereal commercial, shaking off the infinite black fear of a moment prior like an already-forgotten dream, and yet left aware, somewhere underneath, that the dark and cold horrible place we just returned from was Reality, and the world we're so grateful to find back under our feet is the illusion.

The best science fiction isn't about science. The best science fiction isn't fiction.

Anyways, my thoughts turned to you, Warren, because that basically summed up for me the monumental gravitational attraction of Doktor Sleepless, which is my favorite thing you're producing right now. Is Network an American anomaly amongst your strange quaint British artistic influences?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70473#Comment_704732008-07-26T15:10:41-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00mr_josephushttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3564
I'm joining a group of like-minded friends to try to fund some sort of startup biofuel company in the heartland of America. For some reason or other, no one in the Midwest has actually tried to ...
Best case scenario? In a couple of years I and my friends will be tycoons!

Worst case scenario? Once we gather all the data and look at what we've got, we discover we ain't got shit. But hey, you never really know unless you try, right?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70475#Comment_704752008-07-26T15:13:25-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00diellohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3575
I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up, but I heard someone already has that job.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70476#Comment_704762008-07-26T15:17:09-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00FireThiefhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4086
If I cared to spend the time I'd sit and wonder why I'm so entertained by watching the UFC. I'm not athletic, I don't constantly want to fight people, my day is largely consumed by reading and ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70477#Comment_704772008-07-26T15:19:56-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00warrenellishttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2
I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up, but I heard someone already has that job.
I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up. You need to want to be you when you grow up.
I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up, but I heard someone already has that job.

I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up. You need to want to be you when you grow up.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70478#Comment_704782008-07-26T15:21:56-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00ulysses_mcgheehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4089
Drinking beer until I fall asleep - wondering about registration plates - reggie (?) plates - since when does N444 TDS stand for Natalie? Are we now to accept approximations of our names... or ...
My name is G0RY MUL3WH1P

cocks]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70481#Comment_704812008-07-26T15:25:56-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Fractalhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1084
I just fixed my headphones and I have stereo for the first time in a month. I'm so happy.
(Also continuing THE WEEKEND OF EATING: Deli sammiches, dim sum, on to BBQ, possibly greek tonight...)
(Also continuing THE WEEKEND OF EATING: Deli sammiches, dim sum, on to BBQ, possibly greek tonight...)]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70482#Comment_704822008-07-26T15:30:24-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Errolhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3761
Im writing the goodbye letter to my readers tonight, because my comic just got axed. its an altogether surreal fucking experience. I'm new to Indy comics and this is the first time i've had to flat ...
how on fuck-earth do people keep this up their whole lives?

im starving.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70483#Comment_704832008-07-26T15:31:05-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00ulysses_mcgheehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4089
Whatsa BF?
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70484#Comment_704842008-07-26T15:36:07-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00FireThiefhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4086
what's your computer room look like Warren? CBR was doing this Studio Tour thing for a while, but they've been lounging and haven't gotten one out in a while. Care to show us a pic of the madness ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70485#Comment_704852008-07-26T15:36:35-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Vhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765
I'm pretty happy about where I am right now.
I'm living in the city I want to live in, and I'm involved with the research group I want to be involved with.
I'm not rich, but I'm not poor, and I get ...
I'm living in the city I want to live in, and I'm involved with the research group I want to be involved with.I'm not rich, but I'm not poor, and I get to do exactly the work I want.

I guess in a year's time I'd like to still be alive, living in this city, doing this work, and taking photos.I'd like to have made enough progress to be putting early prototypes into the hands of musicians, but I don't want to be done my PhD project because I'm making enough changes that such early completion does not seem a good sign to me.

I'm a little intimidated by some of the other work coming out of my lab, but I'm also very delighted that that is the case. Lots to learn, and lots of interesting people to learn from.

I want to not only grow my ideas, but actually learn how to prepare and feed them to people outside my area.(Ideas are not so powerful when you don't know how to tell anyone about them, and the pool of people doing obscure weirdo music performance research with neural networks is awfully small.)]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70486#Comment_704862008-07-26T15:37:04-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Bombus Hortorushttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485
Things learned this week:
1) it's hard to type, read or do anything useful with a week old baby.
2) I am british and my natural habitat is cold and wet. heat turns my brain bad.
3) Dust on a ...
1) it's hard to type, read or do anything useful with a week old baby. 2) I am british and my natural habitat is cold and wet. heat turns my brain bad. 3) Dust on a DSLR sensor makes baby jesus cry4) There's a website with Southampton shipping movements on it so I now know how to stalk ocean liners. Even though they all now look like poncy floating hotels, not elegant like the QE2.

This time next year I want to be richer, thinner, prettier, cleverer and for my eldest daughter to stop behaving like a schizophrenic doberman with its tail set on fire every time I ask her to do something reasonable like 'tidy up please'.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70488#Comment_704882008-07-26T15:39:59-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Greg SBB!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=856
Got some excellent positive feedback on my first short film script and encouragement to enter a funding round competition to get it made. So, in a year's time I'd like to have had my first short ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70489#Comment_704892008-07-26T15:41:34-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00syringavulgarishttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3462
Moving out of the spousal domicile tomorrow, heigh ho. I am on a thin rotting-ice veneer of Keeping My Shit Together, but keeping it I am.
I'm going down now to talk ways'n'means with Best Friend ...
I'm going down now to talk ways'n'means with Best Friend who is now New Roommate, where we shall consume a nice dry Reisling and a jerk-marinated pork loin I just made, and sit out on her porch on this beautiful evening and watch the drug dealers go by. UPWARDLY MOBILE I AM NOT. But it's all grist to the life mill, no?

I'm not going to post ANOTHER picture. I just SENT you one. Sheesh.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70490#Comment_704902008-07-26T15:42:45-05:002008-07-26T15:43:38-05:00Digitalynhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2841
I'm growing up and I am me. Doing a great job about this so far.
And I need winter back. Seriously, summer is so overrated.
Ooops, edited for the pic of the week :

And I need winter back. Seriously, summer is so overrated.

Ooops, edited for the pic of the week :

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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70493#Comment_704932008-07-26T15:49:44-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00chris ghttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1829
I want to be drawing, non-fucking-STOP! I make little ashcan sized sketchbooks at the day job and use them to stay sharp.
This time next year? hmm, fuck. Well I still want to have a dayjob so I ...
This time next year? hmm, fuck. Well I still want to have a dayjob so I can have money, and hopefully take comicking more seriously by then and have some out for the world to see.

Question: I really think this one girl is AWESOME, but she might be a hardcore Jehovas Witness. Not that I'm against that, but i don't really believe in anything, maybe she could teach me a thing or two. Should I still ask her for coffee? CAN'T HURT!

Vent: Fuuuck, I hate the loser I work with. It's sooo sad, he's like 37 or something, and he just burps all day since there's no ladies around. It must make him feel soooo macho. Obviously no one played with him when he was little...or as a grown up.

I try to put a little fear in him by flashing the lead pipe under my desk.

Oh, and some internet stranger said "i'd like to see you draw Green Arrow fighting Hawkeye"....so I fucking did. I don't regret it. HA!

me on bed. sometimes I get to sleep on it!!

Also: i'm just bored and I wanna get Dr0Nkxorzz!!!]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70494#Comment_704942008-07-26T15:50:06-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Sara 013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=400
This time next year, I want to have run away.
Tonight, I am going to maliciously defile a perfectly good gold pocket watch case. Ha.
Tonight, I am going to maliciously defile a perfectly good gold pocket watch case. Ha.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70498#Comment_704982008-07-26T16:01:23-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00oR.halhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3404
I don't know what I want to be. Actually, I live, like I am, with all the happyness and all the troubles of the days that I pass through. If I ask myself who I want to be in the future, I don't see ...
What I want to have right now? A massage.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70499#Comment_704992008-07-26T16:03:14-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00treylanehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2622
Deep in the Dirty South, it's 1000% humidity and raining buckets. i just failed to take a nap and now have to go get ready for an atypically interesting night out.
an anonymous improv group
+ ...
an anonymous improv group+ improvisational dance + a noise guy in a monkey suit+ "bass ninja" + thrash-surf hellspawn, The Necronomikids+ the worst comedian ever= the kind of event i book solely to amuse myself.

the night has become an ersatz tribute to our close friend and co-conspirator, artist and musician Pak Nichols, who was supposed to be joining us tonight, but was found dead in his gallery last week.

and finally, i just finished another shortfilm. shot and cut and finished in 48 hours. best review yet : "sid and marty krofft's Satyricon!"]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70500#Comment_705002008-07-26T16:14:21-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00nick3pointone4http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4092
i'd like to be here, still in hawaii, but with a semester of school done and a car. i think that's modest enough.
although, where'd i'd really like to be this time next year, is in tokyo getting ...
although, where'd i'd really like to be this time next year, is in tokyo getting shit-faced on cheap sake eating horse meat sashimi.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70501#Comment_705012008-07-26T16:20:11-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Colonel Finnhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3152
I've just been shooting some people on a computer game then I got killed by Radiation poisoning..... eh? when did stuff like that begin to happen in videogames?
But I suppose faux-Maturity is better ...
But I suppose faux-Maturity is better than none.

It's too hot here, far too hot, which is an odd thing to say in Scotland. I'm off to drink more Rose.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70502#Comment_705022008-07-26T16:23:01-05:002008-07-26T16:24:16-05:00outlawpoethttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3601
This time next year my job will have gone back to basic research or I will have left it. If I leave, I'll probably be taking the year to put out a few websites on projects I've backburnered(a wiki ...
If we go back to basic research, I will get even more isolated and drowned in my work. It will be fun.

Today is new computer day at work. Every 18 months or so I get another one to keep my work fast and productive. God, this new one cuts the batch tests from 50 to 30 minutes. I'm in love.

I guess I should publish some of my non-AI work in the next year, like people have been telling me to. I joined the lifeboat foundation out of duty, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Still holding off deleting the work on the comic with Emily, it looks really good, another 5 pages this week.

Somalians fed me goats today. Restaurants have always struck me as something of a reverse religious experience. You sit on your high chair, and grumble your almighty wishes, "sacrifice unto me your finest calf, drowned in honey and milk" you might say, and the waitstaff sashay around in supplication, asking if you are happy, are you pleased with their service, what can they do for you. You devour their offerings, and pronounce your feelings on their performance. And then you pay the bill, cash or credit, at that point things are a bit domestic, I admit. But it's quite odd, for most of it. If you think about it too much.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70504#Comment_705042008-07-26T16:26:38-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00hankhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=79
Next year, I hope to be in a better job, well on my way to entering the Lovers Triad of the OTO, and farther along on my art degree.
Today, I carried a lot of underflooring and laid a floor in ...
Today, I carried a lot of underflooring and laid a floor in our new lodge space. I exceeded my usual abilities as a carpenter. Go me.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70506#Comment_705062008-07-26T16:29:21-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Jon Wakehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1684
Where do I want to be? Hell if I know. Ideally I hope to be struggling with comic scripts for deadlines, a year into my webcomic, and working for actual money.
Right now I'm in triage life ...
Right now I'm in triage life mode. Must keep the power on, get a job, and find a new place to live all in ten days.

The next Open Mic Entry from me may be from a stolen computer behind a dumpster.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70507#Comment_705072008-07-26T16:30:30-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Asphyxiautomatonhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2195
this time next year i would like to be thirty pounds lighter, four hundred packs of kools lovelier, and would like, just once, for someone to acknowledge me as a genius, even if it so incredibly ...
i would like, in a year, to have poetry published, to have the novel written, and to be able to keep a coherent thought.

in a year, to be her husband.

z]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70508#Comment_705082008-07-26T16:31:08-05:002008-07-26T16:32:10-05:00Dmitrihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3463
In half an hour I leave here to go sign up for a membership with the local sex-positive/kink club, and then hopefully take part in some of the festivities this evening at said location. Should be an ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70511#Comment_705112008-07-26T16:34:37-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00KPatrickGloverhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1471
Drank Absinthe in a bar in Northern Michigan last night. Never thought I'd be able to type that sentence. Weird.
Still haven't seen the Dark Knight yet, weirdly unmotivated to do so. I was much ...
Still haven't seen the Dark Knight yet, weirdly unmotivated to do so. I was much more excited about Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. X-Files hit theaters yesterday, may go see a Dark Knight / X-Files double feature on Tuesday, if I don't find something better to do.

Shakespeare in the Park tomorrow, with a couple of friends. That should be fun, especially since I haven't seen these friends in quite awhile.

All in all, not a bad Saturday.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70512#Comment_705122008-07-26T16:38:55-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00waniyetuwihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1987
Making a CV for the gallery in London.
Watching candles burn down to the appropriate size to build an altar for one of my art pieces.
Cleaning my house while drinking.
Looking up plane tickets to ...
Watching candles burn down to the appropriate size to build an altar for one of my art pieces.Cleaning my house while drinking.Looking up plane tickets to London for the end of Sept.Reworking layouts for the magazine. ( Script and size glitches)Making a list of comics for my mom to include in the young adult and adult section of the library.Later on I'll be doing some editing.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70513#Comment_705132008-07-26T16:40:43-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00razrangelhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075
Lost the whole day to feeling ill. Finally not as depressed as I have been for most of the week and instead I can barely move because my dinner last night betrayed me.
This week instead of ...
This week instead of feeling evasive about doing more job hunting I hit a point where I feel utterly numb. Which is much worse. I'm not applying, I'm not following up. Were it not for a friend wanting to visit me in NYC I wouldn't have started the prep that I have to do for next month (will include finding a new place to live). My gut is not the organ I can go with right now. Which is frustrating as well as becalming.

I really wish there was some good whiskey around. If I manage to deposit my tax refund check (not a done deal by a long shot) I may spend a chunk on a bottle of Knappogue or Tullamore Dew or some other sort that I find.

My flight out is in less than three weeks. I have to decide if I'm going to be on that plane and then, whether or not I am, what happens after. I desperately want to stay in NEw York, but for that I need a job. So I continue to chase my tail.

The stress and numbness is killing any creative instinct. Also, I finally saw an ophthalmologist. In the last three months my eyesight went from 20/25 to 20/30. And that's after having been 20/20 for 30 years. Now I'm on a drop that dilates one eye while the other stays normal, and I don't know how long this will last. It's frustrating as hell. The instinct, right in the moment, is to curse New York. But then I hear kids playing out on the street, shouting in English, Spanish and Hindi. I recall that a half a mile from here I can get shepherd's pie, sushi, heavily loaded pizzas, tamales con mole, Thai, halal and Americanized Chinese food. Thunderstorms are common. It's fucking awesome here.

i just wish I could enjoy it.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70514#Comment_705142008-07-26T16:42:07-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00JSandman7http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3724
Recovering the first hangover in forever, hitting people up for remedies.
I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left)
I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left)]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70515#Comment_705152008-07-26T16:44:38-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00JamesMoorehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=507
To Chris g: I say go for it. My best friend is a conservative Christian Republican (working for a Texas senator no less) and despite our surface many, many differences it's been one my most ...
Right now I'm writing a review of the second Casanova album while listening to Burial.

Later I'm either going out with a friend or watching The Seven Samurai for the first time. Either way a good night.I'm also reading news from the Nerd Prom and finding little of interests. I still wish I was in SD though, not just for the con but to live.

In a year? I'd like to be out of Ohio, preferably in San Diego but really any other decent city. I want to have finished my first novel, and to have reclaimed some of the spark I've lodt from the day to day grind of life in the Real World. I was kind of awesome once and I will make myself so once again.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70516#Comment_705162008-07-26T16:45:09-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00oldhathttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75
I just want to be making money doing something that I love doing and perhaps lose some weight while doing it.
Ugh...the boyfriend wanted to go for a walk. Four and a half hours later I went home ...
Ugh...the boyfriend wanted to go for a walk. Four and a half hours later I went home and he decided to walk to his house on the other side of the city. My legs are killing me.

AND I got my eyebrows threaded today. It felt like some horrible kind of torture.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70517#Comment_705172008-07-26T16:47:59-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00krushdbughttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4002
I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left)
No way. From the looks of that picture, you have already found the very best people to get drunk with.
I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left)

No way. From the looks of that picture, you have already found the very best people to get drunk with.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70518#Comment_705182008-07-26T16:52:56-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00tim12shttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=737
Just got in from laughing at the mongs lining up for their Apple futurephones, getting my PBP's power cable replaced. Had a tasty Mexican, drove around in the sunshine...
Waiting on the missus to ...
Waiting on the missus to get up off her arse to go cycling in Golden Gate Park before they open the roads at 6pm. I doubt we'll cycle today. There's only an hour left.

Watching a rip of The Mighty Boosh Live at the Brixton Academy. (NOT the fucking Carling Academy. It's not IN Carling.) "That's S-T-U-M-P Stump Fucking!"

Pencilling a story about the Chartists Rally in Kennington Park. SO much research done, SO many grainy, black and white photos from 1848.

At least drawing horses is easy. I used to draw horses at Belfairs Park when I was little.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70519#Comment_705192008-07-26T16:53:52-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Vhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765
Sara: Run away ... to Montreal?
Oh! A picture. I forgot a picture.
Oh! A picture. I forgot a picture.

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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70520#Comment_705202008-07-26T16:55:58-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00renerodrhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2718
Wanting to be at Clarion Workshop next year around this time. Hell, maybe even Comic Con again with my brother in law.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70521#Comment_705212008-07-26T16:56:31-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00helloMullerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=560
Wife and I met up with friends today, and had amazing dim sum lunch in Chinatown (the London, England version), wandered around a bit in the blistering heat. Bought some "Bruce Lee" ...
tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year.I'd like to have made some headway in comics/graphic novels (as in: finally find the proper time to work on something).

Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...I REALLY REALLY LIKED THE DARK KNIGHT!(Yeah, Ledger is indeed good in it... Nice to see that for once, the hype is somewhat grounded in reality)]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70522#Comment_705222008-07-26T16:59:36-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00chucksaxhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3251
Life sucks right now.
My 11-month old has kidney cancer. All prognosis are good, but it still sucks ass.
Good thing he's cute. Studies have shown that cute kids get better care than ugly ones. ...
My 11-month old has kidney cancer. All prognosis are good, but it still sucks ass.

Good thing he's cute. Studies have shown that cute kids get better care than ugly ones. When my baby enters the hospital outpatient center, the nurses come running to him like he's a lit crack pipe in the projects.

He'll be in chemo for 21 more weeks - Thursday was week three. Argh.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70527#Comment_705272008-07-26T17:18:50-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Kostikahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1331
I cut my hair
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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70528#Comment_705282008-07-26T17:20:17-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Danielle Ni Dhighehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2366
This is a good week for venting.
I finally got a new tech support job, which is a good thing, but while I was at work on Thursday, my apartment was burglarized. They stole a DVD player and most ...
I finally got a new tech support job, which is a good thing, but while I was at work on Thursday, my apartment was burglarized. They stole a DVD player and most of my DVDs, including my entire Doctor Who collection that I'd been building for years and some rare foreign DVDs. They also stole a digital voice recorder and some valuable jewelry.

There's probably few worse feelings than coming home from a hard day's work to discover that someone burglarized your apartment. It's such a sense of violation, and you wish you could do something violent to the criminals who victimized you.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70530#Comment_705302008-07-26T17:23:40-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00StefanJhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=961
I thought I was on the wagon as far as computer games went, but right now I'm jonesing for a few hours of Galactic Civilizations II.
I should be writing.
* * *
@checksax: Hang in there. ...
Galactic Civilizations II.

I should be writing.

* * *

@checksax: Hang in there. Not there's ever a good time for cancer, but little kids seem to bounce back from this kind of thing better than adults.

BrianMowrey: Ballard or Aldiss or someone came up with the label "slipstream" for fiction that isn't ray gun and rocket stuff but is sure as hell science fiction because it has the attitude.

It isn't as well recognized, but there's stuff about space ships and genetically engineered things and computers that isn't science fiction. It's usually pretty tedious stuff.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70531#Comment_705312008-07-26T17:25:59-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Jake Montefuhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3187
I had a fulfilling day today, and ideally I'll be doing what I did today a lot more often in another year.After waking around nine a.m. I had an appointment with a woman at a coffee shop in town.I ...
After waking around nine a.m. I had an appointment with a woman at a coffee shop in town.I was meeting her there to deliver six prints she purchased from me!It's not like I sell a bunch of prints. Obviously I was quite happy to actually be getting paid for my personal work, which was an almost entirely new sensation for me.It's hard to make a living if you want to do it through art.Here's the product, they were all printed on 11x14 paper with a cool, slight metallic finish:

As usual all comments, positive or negative are welcomed.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70534#Comment_705342008-07-26T17:34:25-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Masonhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4094
Working on my own comics, I'll wait till the end of the rant to shamelessly plug myself though.
Been talking to a lot of editors lately at cons. They seem nice enough and then I send them my stuff ...
Been talking to a lot of editors lately at cons. They seem nice enough and then I send them my stuff via email and all they can do is criticize the art. I try to explain that I'm the writer, and that I'd really like it if they read the scripts to the art that they see... And then they email me back as if I'm the artist again. I'm a positive guy, but this is no world for a writer who can't draw. Unless your name is Warren Ellis I guess...

I helped my girlfriend out at work today. Got back and noticed a stain that looks (but isn't) semen on my shirt. I wonder what her coworkers think of me now. They probably say, "That Mason, he's a guy who gets things done..." Pause, "All over his shirt..." or something lame like that.

http://www.geekocracy.org/comix/

What follows is hopefully a picture of me looking like a douche bag... I can never seem to post pictures right anywhere... It's all the crack.

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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70539#Comment_705392008-07-26T17:40:37-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00buzzorhowlhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3628
@chucksax--Your poor son! That's terrible. Best wishes to you and your family.
@Mason--Maybe you oughta just send the scripts with no art?
@Mason--Maybe you oughta just send the scripts with no art?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70540#Comment_705402008-07-26T17:40:38-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Direwolfhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3883
Right now, I'm at work, going on hour 56 or some such for this week. But then, I really can't complain since my boss lets me read during my downtime. This week I've been reading Elantris by Brandon ...
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. I really enjoyed the first two books of his Mistborn Trilogy, and thought I'd give his first publication a shot. Impression so far: it's decent fantasy.

This week in Boston has seen some truly wicked stormage (spending my week's allottment of destroying English). Beautiful thunderheads have come rolling across the city, scattering tree limbs and tossing the homeless every which way.

@Danielle Ni Dhihe: Sorry to hear about your place getting burgled. Thankfully no one was hurt. Chances are slim they'll catch the asshats, but karma's got a much better prosecution rate.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70542#Comment_705422008-07-26T17:45:26-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Trotskyhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1278
just bought my first "adult" bike today...
and of course I have no idea how to ride it properly. am looking forward to hours of humiliation trying to figure the damn thing out.
guy at ...
and of course I have no idea how to ride it properly. am looking forward to hours of humiliation trying to figure the damn thing out.guy at the shop staired in disbeleif as I barley made it around the parking lot, then suggested training wheels.

I said, "no thank you, if i don't know how to do it by now, then i deserve to fall"

Where in the world did my parents go wrong with me? I really wonder sometimes.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70543#Comment_705432008-07-26T17:45:41-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00alphatropehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1863
Has anyone else ever noticed that the difference between Satan and Santa is an insidious migration of the letter N?
SaNta
SataN
There was a Satan Claus when I signed my deal with the devil.
I ...
SaNtaSataNThere was a Satan Claus when I signed my deal with the devil.

I understands the difference between vivid and lucid. Youth is not truth when age is all the rage. Show no disdain for the dull and plain, when it's within your powers to put the range in strange.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70544#Comment_705442008-07-26T17:47:01-05:002008-07-26T17:47:38-05:00krushdbughttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4002
A man is calling out into the night. Her name is Janne, and he's shouted it out loud enough that it has reached my window about 47 times now. The hopeful tone in his voice has not let up once, like ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70545#Comment_705452008-07-26T17:49:07-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00keighterhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3210
Next year I don't want to be twiddling my thumbs all summer... It's my own fault, but still it's frustrating trying to get a job for only 3 months and then doing what I usually do over the summer and ...
Tonight is a kegger and my aunt's 30 year high school reunion, for which she and her husband are in town.

and the family is back... fuck. time to be social and lie about my big plans for my life...]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70546#Comment_705462008-07-26T17:50:43-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Masonhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4094
@buzzorhowl That has been attempted by myself and many writers before me. I don't know of an editor that exists who will look at a script without art. I could be wrong, maybe they're hiding around ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70547#Comment_705472008-07-26T17:51:59-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00krushdbughttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4002
UPDATE: Amidst a couple of "Wake up!"s and "Can you hear me?"s, his voice has now taken on a more frustrated tone. "JANNE!" Anger seems to be seeping in.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70548#Comment_705482008-07-26T17:55:21-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Masonhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4094
@alphatrope The local churches tend to put things like, "Santa is coming!" around christmas time. As you might imagine we often change it to, "Satan."
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70549#Comment_705492008-07-26T18:00:00-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00CamyLunahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3271
This time next year I want to be camped out on the side of a mountain waiting for the Tour de France to go by. I want to be one of the masses lined up for a mountain stage, waving a flag (make it a ...
It's a desire that I've had for the past 5 years, and it's not right to let a desire fester for so long.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70550#Comment_705502008-07-26T18:04:35-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00burntcopperhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3560
This time next year I hope to have a job that pays me enough for rent and a living of some sort. That doesn't drive me insane. No bloody idea how I'm going to find a job in a place that doesn't ...
Tomorrow i have to make a sundress or two and then adjust a leather skirt.

The day after that? Going to see Zorro the musical. Because I need mad swashbuckling in my life.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70551#Comment_705512008-07-26T18:04:51-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Kibblesmithhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2169
This year and next: Decided to stay in Chicago (sorry NYC). Band hiatus seems to be over, so hopefully working on that. Might be doing an online show for actual producers, not to jinx that either. ...
Full of coffee, sushi, optimism. Bruce Lee tonight at my place, byob.

If you have trouble finding me, I was this one:

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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70552#Comment_705522008-07-26T18:05:59-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00krushdbughttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4002
FINAL UPDATE: Silence. The matter of acquiring keys to Janne's apartment seems to have been resolved. His tireless dedication to shouting the same name over and over again finally paid off. ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70553#Comment_705532008-07-26T18:06:56-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Masonhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4094
@ Kibblesmith Chicago is the superior city anyways.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70554#Comment_705542008-07-26T18:07:13-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00AtomicSlothhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=390
I swear my eyes used to be blue.
There are things in the room that want my blood. They move through dimensions, I can only catch them in the corner of my eye. I have two huge bites already. I ...
There are things in the room that want my blood. They move through dimensions, I can only catch them in the corner of my eye. I have two huge bites already. I never saw a mosquito til I visited the fucking midlands.

I has a college. In nottinghams. All I need now is a flat. Also thinking about getting a scooter. I can't actually ride a bike but I do have the goggles...I went out tonight, had a meal, drank a respectable ammount of alcohol, but it's now 2am, my party are all asleep, Im pretty sober and incredibly untired. Do I start drinking again?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70555#Comment_705552008-07-26T18:08:52-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00cjstevenshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1610
Just got back from Dark Knight screening at Bluewater. Believe the hype. Everyone knows already, but Ledger really nailed that part with chilling perfection. So sad.
I've started reading 52. Never ...
I've started reading 52. Never been a fan of DC Universe (cept Batman and a few others) but it is actually a whole lotta fun. London is being crushed by thick humidity and making me extra lethargic..I think a storm is coming.Why So Serious?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70556#Comment_705562008-07-26T18:12:25-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00krushdbughttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4002
cjstevens: "Would you like to be educated in manners relating to how I procured the scarred tissue that you may observe on my face?"
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70561#Comment_705612008-07-26T18:25:10-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00arcanerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2374
Warning incoming random rant.
/me hops on his hobby horse
My biggest pet peeve is lazy speculative fiction writers. Biggest sin in this area is mono-climate planets. "We're going to ...
/me hops on his hobby horse

My biggest pet peeve is lazy speculative fiction writers. Biggest sin in this area is mono-climate planets. "We're going to crash into the jungle planet of Jureika!" No, you're not. And it would just take changing a few words and things would be fine. "We're going to crash into the jungles of Jureika!" Problem solved.

Recently another line made me want to start stabbing. "The planet didn't have any animals, but there were plenty of fruit trees." Do you see what's wrong there? AURGH.

Since I don't have an image of my face out on the intrawebz here's my sygil. Plz do not steal.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70562#Comment_705622008-07-26T18:25:58-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00mybrainhurtshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1584
My computer keeps shutting itself down with no warning so I'll keep this brief.
This time next year I hope to have finished writing a book, be in a shitty punk band, be in America and have a ...
This time next year I hope to have finished writing a book, be in a shitty punk band, be in America and have a girlfriend, I'd settle for one of those four.

This week I've been watching Freaks & Geeks which is great but sometimes is physically painful to watch as I'm not far enough removed from the unpleasantness and awkwardness that was school to laugh at it just yet.

It's too hot right now. I'm not built for the heat, yesterday I went down to London to see the World/Inferno Friendship Society (amazing cabaret-punk band) and I walked from Marble Arch to Camden. The cold pint I had when I got there was better than anything else that's going on in my life right now.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70564#Comment_705642008-07-26T18:29:00-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Polineeshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4096
By this time next year, I will be a robot.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70565#Comment_705652008-07-26T18:29:59-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00mkhallhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3878
I don't want to be in Miami, I know that much. I don't want to be working for a huge fucking corporation rearranging deck chairs, either. And I don't want to wake up every morning having to claw my ...
Other than that, I'm open to suggestions.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70568#Comment_705682008-07-26T18:36:25-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Laurahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2103
Monday is my birthday. I will be 31. For my birthday, I would like to find my stupid freaking XP disk so that I can fix my stupid freaking PC. I'm currently using hubby's laptop and it sucks. ...
I've been at my new job for about 3 months now. I feel like it's time that I should quit using that as an excuse to not write anything. Yeah, the hours are a little crazy, but it's really not that hard to find half an hour to write here and there. Hell, I could be doing it now instead of being here. But here I am. Hello, world.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70569#Comment_705692008-07-26T18:47:29-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00trini_naenaehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=183
What I want to be doing around this time next year? Getting ready to move to the state college I transferred to, preferably with a good scholarship and job, that is (at least vaguely) in the Bay ...
As for right now - I had a decently good creative week. I made myself a sketchbook and I've already filled 20 pages of it with unimportant scribbles and whatnot. I'm going to be working this Monday, which is good as I need more hours anyhow. I'm probably going to get my hair trimmed/cut in the near future and I'm considering getting bangs.

I've already posted a fair amount of photos in the self portrait thread. Perhaps I don't need a photo of me here?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70570#Comment_705702008-07-26T19:03:26-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00meghanhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3408
Sometimes I wish my base level wasn't rational and calm. 'Cause this week needed to be beat to death with a baseball bat. But I'm already feeling better, so the moment had passed.
Damn.
Damn.
Damn.

Damn.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70572#Comment_705722008-07-26T19:08:05-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00DavidBrownhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1596
Hmmmmm....well, by this time next year, I hope, first of all, that the world hasn't blown itself up yet. If we are still here and intact by this time next year, I hope the fucking script me and my ...
I would also like to see Americans wake up a bit by next year (although I fear it may be too late by then). At this rate, nearly all of our 'rights' will have vanished by next year at this time! But I really doubt my countrymen are actually capable of this feat.

Wow, I guess that is sort of a rant and a 'next year at this time...' thing.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70573#Comment_705732008-07-26T19:08:51-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00outlawpoethttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3601
Sometimes I wish my base level wasn't rational and calm. 'Cause this week needed to be beat to death with a baseball bat. But I'm already feeling better, so the moment had passed.
I have that ...
Sometimes I wish my base level wasn't rational and calm. 'Cause this week needed to be beat to death with a baseball bat. But I'm already feeling better, so the moment had passed.

I have that exact feeling all the time. Like, here's a perfect moment for me to lose my shit, but I'm already thinking about it coldly and rationally, so I can't very well go back and make my first reaction to get spectacularly angry. It would be lying, it would be emotional self-deception, and I couldn't do it without being self-conscious anyway. But I totally would have been in the right if I had. But here I am, dealing with it like I'm a politeness zombie.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70574#Comment_705742008-07-26T19:21:05-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00alphatropehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1863
@Mason: I'm always up for a little spiritual larceny. Petty crime is not a term used to describe but to humiliate. For me, no crime is too petty.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70576#Comment_705762008-07-26T19:33:37-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00alphatropehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1863
@Mason: Oh, and the only crack you should be on is the one on your girlfriend. Your shorts belie an underlying truth to your personality.
I hope that made no sense as it would be far more ...
I hope that made no sense as it would be far more interesting than what I meant to say.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70577#Comment_705772008-07-26T19:34:37-05:002008-07-27T04:22:05-05:00notsurewhohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4098
"Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...
I don't believe in waxing, so you'd rather not see it...
I'm surounded by people ...
I don't believe in waxing, so you'd rather not see it... I'm surounded by people getting married or having babies... 25 feels middle aged.....and if I could talk dirty I doubt I'd be single...

If I wasn't filled with so many lies... I think I'd want friends....]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70578#Comment_705782008-07-26T19:35:52-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Sara 013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=400
Vanessa! - Is that an invitation?? ^^
Malicious defiling complete...
Now what...?
Vanessa! - Is that an invitation?? ^^

Malicious defiling complete...

Now what...?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70581#Comment_705812008-07-26T19:48:10-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00tedcrolandhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2106
@Sara
That's beautiful. Have you ever thought about taking pictures in progress?
That's beautiful. Have you ever thought about taking pictures in progress?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70583#Comment_705832008-07-26T19:51:45-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00notwolfhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4060
i am eating Shiner Bock ice cream.
Shiner Bock ice cream.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70584#Comment_705842008-07-26T19:54:12-05:002008-07-26T20:04:46-05:00Rachæl Tyrellhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552
Here is a left handed drawing I did a while ago. Once again, it is an accurate portrayal of my physical state (aside from the hiar color):
My right hand aches and doesn't work right , so I'm ...

My right hand aches and doesn't work right , so I'm typing mostly left handed. Trying to use my notebook computer wrong-handed is difficult and cumbersome. It makes the meager living I make out of doing design work from home rather impossible to handle for the time being.

My right foot feels similar to the hand, but it doesn't have to grab or be particularly dextrous, so it doesn't suffer the brunt of my frustration and tears. I walk a little funny, but I already did that before from the left ankle being perpetually fucked, so it doesn't so much matter.

I've only been able to sleep for two hours this morning, so I can't focus to read pages of text for long periods because my eyes will cross and my vision will go double and it will end too soon. Drawing is slightly less strain on the eyes, but there's that right hand problem... Typing is a painful frustration, so computer can't whittle away my time. Can't go for a long walk, because my right foot aches, and it's hot out, which makes everything (numbness, weakness, stabby pains) worse.

Left handed drawing once again, then.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70586#Comment_705862008-07-26T19:57:02-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Vhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765
Sara - Decidedly so. Any time. ^.^
And that watch appears much improved in a lovely direction.
Sara - Decidedly so. Any time. ^.^ And that watch appears much improved in a lovely direction.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70587#Comment_705872008-07-26T20:01:26-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00fmillerhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3902
Next year, i hope to have my graphic novel out and be a published writer. Living in my own home with my girlfriend. Not working a lousy job that i hate.
Right now: I'm sitting in my room, ...
Right now: I'm sitting in my room, watching south park. I'm kinda hungry and i'm craving beer.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70588#Comment_705882008-07-26T20:20:03-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00allanahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019
Saturday Night Open Mic: tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what ...
Saturday Night Open Mic: tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...

this time next year i don't want to be: having such a hard time finding writers who want to submit articles frequently, having such a hard time writing my own articles (gah! editor stop yelling at me i'll submit when it's damn well good enough to submit and not a moment before), putting off necessary renovations, quite so stupid about things i do in fact know, poor, dirty, inebriated, or achey, trying desperately to find a way to crack Max/MSP 5.

i do want to be: rich as a thief, pretty as a hooker, at least slightly less in debt (or with the prospects to see myself getting out of debt), the free time and motivation to make that fun to-do list happen, and maybe all the words to The Philadelphia Story memorized, instead of only half-memorized.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70589#Comment_705892008-07-26T20:28:13-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00IsenMikehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=86
Right now I'm spending the second night in a row staying in my San Diego hotel room going to bed early. Last night my post-work "nap" accidentally turned into a full 10-hour night's sleep, ...
really hit the town tonight.

Nope. Had to leave our booth an hour early because I felt like crap. Picked up a thermometer on the way back to the hotel. I have a 101.7 degree fever. Fucking hell.

I guess next year I'd like to be back at San Diego and NOT FUCKING SICK. (Also maybe working a different booth, having moved on to a better position at another company?)

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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70591#Comment_705912008-07-26T20:29:06-05:002008-07-26T20:29:23-05:00Arianahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1
Malicious defiling complete...I recognize those guts...
Malicious defiling complete...I recognize those guts...]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70592#Comment_705922008-07-26T20:29:48-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Leandro Damascenohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=274
They announced the Eisner winners last night and some people that won are pretentious bastards. I'm not gonna name drop, but if there's one thing that pisses me off is someone saying how hard there ...
But I do it anyway because I'm tough like that, I'm powerful and I let go of my social live to make what I love". Oh, go fuck yourself, would you?

If it's such a sacrifice, go explore the amazing world of telemarketing. I don't need to know that your are better then the rest of humanity because you spent your weekend doing comics. If you weren't doing them, chances are you would be doing nothing at all. But that is not the point.

Listen, Math is my kryptonite. I can't understand it and fuck it, I don't work with it anyway. So, accounting is not one of my carrer choices. And I think accounters do a terribly difficult job. Impossible for me to do in a million years. The same thing with engineers, boat pilots and a million other jobs. But I don't see an accounter saying "oh, my job is so hard! Yes, I can add and multiply, but my job is a soul killing job and I do it so you can deliver your tax papers on time." What I do is translate ideas and concepts into images and I can create a story that starts with an image. That's what I do. And fuck all the difficults of my job. I do what I do and that's it. If it doesn't fulfill me, I change, as I did before, and go do something else. Answer a phone all day long, perhaps. If it's so hard and you do it anyway, you're either a masoquist or stupid. Possible both.

Go do your job and stop complaing. You're not the last good samaritan on Earth because you spent hours drawing comics. You were doing your job. The job you choose to do in the first place. So, please, you can stop the complaing now. If nothing else, because you have an Eisner award to make me shut the fuck up.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70593#Comment_705932008-07-26T20:32:58-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Val A Lindsay IIhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1680
Sitting here in misery, think I got some mild food poisoning. #gack#
So here's something sickening for everyone else...
So here's something sickening for everyone else...

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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70595#Comment_705952008-07-26T20:49:03-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00sjchttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4100
Next year? On a book tour, wreaking havoc, loving life.
And waiting for the last issue of Planetary.
And waiting for the last issue of Planetary.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70596#Comment_705962008-07-26T20:52:44-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00agentarsenichttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2955
Watching the last George Carlin special for the first time. Gonna smoke whilst the neighbors and the wife go drink.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70597#Comment_705972008-07-26T20:55:09-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00allanahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019
@# Val A Lindsay II: wouldn't the answer presumably be "have anal sex at night so there's no 'rest of the day' within which the fluids can come leaking out?
not an arse, but whatever. long ...

not an arse, but whatever. long work week, and i'm proud of it:]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70599#Comment_705992008-07-26T21:01:47-05:002008-07-26T21:14:14-05:00Spiraltwisthttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=426
I'm tired. Things are sorting, basically. I could go into some long writing about other stuff, but I don't have the time. Need to get school work done and get to sleep. Wishing I was back here:
I ...
I think the camera got scared, which is why it's blurry. The smile has the "power".

Edited to fix picture. And nicely done, Sara.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70600#Comment_706002008-07-26T21:12:52-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00cavalaxishttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3656
Note to the unwashed masses: Grief isn't a disease. You can't catch it from me. What you're experiencing, fellow citizen, is a rare human emotion called empathy. It means your soul isn't ...
Only one thing to think about. When the day comes and you find yourself on the business end of grief? Please don't be surprised when people treat you like a plague victim. It's only what you would have done.

(WE~ Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. ~L.)]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70601#Comment_706012008-07-26T21:17:17-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Eridanhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2301
Tonight I'm sitting at my desk in my pajamas, logged in taking calls. See, I do phone sex for a living. I talk to desperate husbands whose wives wouldn't dream of putting That Thing In Their Mouth, ...
Tonight I've already talked to a guy who wanted to be put under orders to wear panties to church tomorrow morning, under his suit, a father who is desperately in lust with his eldest daughter's dorm-mate, and a guy who wanted tips on how to better perform cunnilingus on his wife. But at 2.99 a minute, it's the best money I can make and still be a full-time mom.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70603#Comment_706032008-07-26T21:28:33-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00smibbohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4091
@# Val A Lindsay II: its called "enema" - that's the big secret
@ Eridan: lots of men lie about their sexual relationship with their wives. It allows them to pretend that it's ...
@ Eridan: lots of men lie about their sexual relationship with their wives. It allows them to pretend that it's "okay" to get off on a stranger doing stuff. I salute you for doing that job though, being a full-time mom isn't easy and it sure ain't cheap. So you go girl.

Me? Next year this time I expect to be engaged in self-employment. Sewing luxury cloth diapers. Hopefully I will then have enough time/money to be able to have babysitting so that I can spend at least one hour every day finishing up ONE writing project of the hundreds that went into hibernation when I moved here: illness, hospitalization, trauma, hospitalization again, pregnancy, hospitalization again, oh gawd its been one thing after another for TWO YEARS but seems like it's finally slowing down.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70605#Comment_706052008-07-26T21:37:58-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00brittanicahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2296
went to a friend's wedding today with the boyfriend. i've not been in the best of moods anyway, so this didn't help. boring, and made me think of what my own wedding would be like.
it would also be ...
it would also be boring, and most of the people i invite would most likely not show up.that, and i don't think i could have it in a church. makes me uncomfortable.saw the dark knight for the second time afterward. made me feel better.

where do i want to be this time next year?

i want to be in a studio, using my fucking $2500 community college education. maybe not in nashville, but i want to record people. in class, nobody else would volunteer to sit behind the mixing console when we had people in our little studio. god, i've never felt more important than when i got to talk to these musicians in the booth. i felt like i was helping create something special.i miss it. sure, i mix my boyfriend's ep that he may never finish. not the same. i need that feeling again. i don't feel like much of a person without it.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70608#Comment_706082008-07-26T21:42:35-05:002008-07-26T21:44:44-05:00Gillianhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3693
In one year: I am hoping to be living full time as a woman. I also hope to have a better job by then but so do most people.
Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was ...
Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?

Note: My appearance seems to be well into the androgynous zone. In the past two days I've been ma'amed twice (and they didn't correct themselves) and looked at funny several times.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70609#Comment_706092008-07-26T21:45:16-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00chris ghttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1829
One for the road - i finally got a old-ass copy of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. I hope it helps me beef up the areas I need help on (all of them!)
Got NIN - The Slip in cd/dvd form this week. ...
Got NIN - The Slip in cd/dvd form this week. Guhhhhh, it fucking infuses me with energy, GOD DAMN!Oh, and payday is tomorrow. Yay, i guess. What's the point if I ain't got drinking pals.I'm fully recovered from opening night of TDK, time for round 2 soon!@James Moore - she works in my favorite bookstore, hope I don't fuck this up or I won't ever be able to go back! HAHA!@Sara 013 - Amazing work!@Spiraltwist - That is so awesome. I don't know how I would act if i met cranky sea captain, but I would probly breakdown. but he's got a no-crying policy...followed by the eels@Mason - nice shorts]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70610#Comment_706102008-07-26T21:56:42-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00gdwesselhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=25
Back home from work now. Enjoying a Woodchuck Cider and looking up this Midwest Comic-Con that FireThief mentioned and finding precious little information about it, other than a half million has-been ...
On the other hand, a friend of mine brought me a bag of Oreos at work. For no discernable good reason. And that's awesome.

Have to work again tomorrow, of course, but maybe I can knock out a flashfic before then. Maybe not. Feeling pretty creative the last week. Maybe because I've finally got an actionable plan in place to get myself NOTICED HA HA HA HA]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70611#Comment_706112008-07-26T22:00:06-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00mercurialblondehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2444
Next year I'm going to be writing a brilliant Huntress mini-series for DC, doing tarot card readings on the semi-regular-en route to a side gig as a card reader, and putting the finishing touches on ...
I have the crazy look in my eye now. People can see it. They can feel it. I won't be denied for anything.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70614#Comment_706142008-07-26T22:06:13-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00buzzorhowlhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3628
@allana--Dan Savage's response to the question can be found here. You guys came up with different ones, but yours will work too, I'd assume.
here. You guys came up with different ones, but yours will work too, I'd assume.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70615#Comment_706152008-07-26T22:07:38-05:002008-07-26T22:12:44-05:00Lanihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3573
(Edit: Oh yeah, Mr. Warren likes pictures. Here's me at the bottom of the Grand Canyon last Thanksgiving.)
Earlier this week, I saw pictures, video, and listened to a short bit of audio of a ...

Earlier this week, I saw pictures, video, and listened to a short bit of audio of a woman who was killed on April 16th, 2007 in the shooting at Virginia Tech. She was my boyfriend's sometime girlfriend at the time - I say sometime because they had dated, broken up, and then were in the process of getting back together when she was killed. He was devastated to hear that she was sitting in that German class, as well as to hear that several of his other friends and acquaintances were among the 32 killed that day.

Since I met and started dating him 4 months ago, I've heard a lot about these people and seen some of their pictures. I feel like I almost know this girl because of everything that I have heard. I'll only ever know her in grand strokes, and know none of the small quirky details that really make a person. Everything that I have heard, though, paints an image of a really beautiful and kind soul. Many of them were, actually. As my boyfriend pointed out, often when a person's life is taken, there is much hyperbole in remembrance - but with many of the victims of that shooting, it's no hyperbole. They were truly wonderful people.

It's gotten me thinking about how I would want to be remembered if my life were suddenly cut short, what actions would really reflect my values and ideals in a concrete way...what kind of a person do I want to be. It's easy for inertia to take over and to keep putting off those great plans you have for yourself, and inertia took hold of my life for several years after I graduated with my bachelor's degree. But I started fighting it last year when I went back to school to get a master's degree. I was floundering a bit, though, on what to do afterwards - but I've finally figured it out.

And so in a year's time, I plan to be graduated with my master's degree in Health Psychology and a new member of the Peace Corps preparing to go to Africa, on my way to start a career in Global Health issues. I may not be able to save the world, but I can make a real difference for people in need. I'm lucky to have been born in a rich country and a good family, but it was simply luck. I want to help the people who weren't so lucky in where they were born. That's at least my dream, and certainly how I'd like to be remembered.(By the way, if I can make a request, you guys should go read about the victims of the shooting on VT's memorial page. So many of them were truly truly wonderful people.) ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70616#Comment_706162008-07-26T22:12:02-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Sara 013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=400
tedcroland
"Have you ever thought about taking pictures in progress?"
Nnnnnah. Pictures in-progress would be incredibly uninteresting, really.
(Step 1: watch, not working. Step 2: ...
tedcroland "Have you ever thought about taking pictures in progress?"

Nnnnnah. Pictures in-progress would be incredibly uninteresting, really.(Step 1: watch, not working. Step 2: watch, never going to work again.)

SpiralTwist - great photo. ^__^]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70617#Comment_706172008-07-26T22:13:13-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00buzzorhowlhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3628
@Gillian
Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in ...

Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?

I don't know if he was trying to ask you out or if he was just interested but unwilling to make himself vulnerable by coming out and saying what he had in mind, but I think he definitely was trying to coax you into hanging out later. Whether you passed is another question entirely, though--who knows if he clocked you and just didn't care? Either way, though, I'd say he was definitely interested.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70620#Comment_706202008-07-26T22:23:31-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Robsonhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=682
Good evening, Engineers.
10:20pm here in San Francisco - had one of my laziest-boy-in-town Saturdays since I've been sleepless throughout the week. Spent much of the day in bed, dozing and reading ...
10:20pm here in San Francisco - had one of my laziest-boy-in-town Saturdays since I've been sleepless throughout the week. Spent much of the day in bed, dozing and reading comics. Went out to eat, and am now watching David Hasselhoff and some no-name soldiers hunting a giant snake on the SciFi channel.

Work on the new play, MOMMY, continues. It looks like I can open it on Valentines Day weekend, which pleases me.

Tomorrow I may be trekking to an outdoor barbecue joint to hear the Kronos Quartet play.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70621#Comment_706212008-07-26T22:24:44-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00stsparkyhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2311
I'm not really up for being 50. Am committed to taking daughter, wife, guest and her nephew to a Dodger game. Oy. Then Monday, we're at Disneyland for 2 days. My bud called me from SDCC unable to ...
What's happening here and now:I go sleep now.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70622#Comment_706222008-07-26T22:25:26-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00CaitlinKhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3675
If someone at a SFF convention offers you a Zombie and refers to it as "blue drank" with a heavy Oklahoma accent...
Don't drink it.
Don't drink it.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70623#Comment_706232008-07-26T22:29:55-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Vhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=765
@allana Have you considered giving pd/gem a try? 'Tis free.
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70624#Comment_706242008-07-26T22:33:03-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00rickiep00hhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2930
@Vanessa, Sara 013:
You take the very best sort of pictures. I won't qualify that with anything else.
@warrenellis:
If by "talk dirty" you mean "make thinly-veiled sexual ...
You take the very best sort of pictures. I won't qualify that with anything else.

My week was actually rather uneventful. Caught up on a couple of hobby things, ditched Microsoft Office for OpenOffice, installed Opera 9.5 on my phone, and have been slowly considering Linux. Adobe and Protools are the things keeping me from it right now. And various driver things. Today I went to a minor league baseball game to watch the hometown team get fucked up the asses by the visiting team. The Joliet Jackhammers. How appropriate. Next week will actually determine what happens to where I'll be next year. Wife's got an interview with Sweetwater Sound. All goes well, we'll be moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Which is less jarring than a move to California, I bet.

So there. No ranting this week. I've saved that for other threads.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70629#Comment_706292008-07-26T22:42:30-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Gekkohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3435
Warren said: " You need to want to be you when you grow up."
I had an epiphany a fortnight ago. I was back in Ireland 20 years after living there. Strolling around places I used to be so ...
I had an epiphany a fortnight ago. I was back in Ireland 20 years after living there. Strolling around places I used to be so fond of (Sandycove, the Gravediggers...) and I came to the conclusion that growing old is all right, growing old is not a waste of time, growing old is a good craic as long as you've been true to yourself (and you know deep inside if you've been true or not, you can't just decide you've been so)Next year same time? I'll be in a plane, learning a few words of the natives I'll be visiting.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70632#Comment_706322008-07-26T22:48:39-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00mercurialblondehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2444
@Gillian
Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later ...

Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?

Who really knows? I'd try not to get too caught up in the pronoun game as a gauge for anything. There's so many things that could happen, it will make you crazy if you judge your progress on that. At the end of the day it's about how you feel and your own confidence.

I'm in a situation where I'm working at a job I used to work before I transitioned, and the manager who never knew me in my previous gender, decided to make it really weird and awkward, and inform all of the new staff of my previous gender situation, and make it this big tadoo(I almost didn't get hired because of it, and was told this outright(which is legal for them to do in this state)). It is the first job I've ever had where the word transgender ever has come up. And the first time people have started stumbling around on pronouns. I could take that and make it this negative thing, but I'm secure enough in who I am that I just kind of laugh at the silliness of it. It's not a big deal. The customers don't know and don't care, the only reason the staff know or care is because they are bored and have been made to care. Things are already settling down though as people actually get to meet me as opposed to theorize about me. Just remember, you're not a pronoun.

At the end of the day, you are who you are, and little pronouns slips or non-slips by strangers really don't have much bearing on it.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70633#Comment_706332008-07-26T22:49:01-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Dragonehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=380
Just got back from a job that has fucking killed my social life.
Drinking to just be able to kill the rage from the job that is killing my social life.
Drinking makes me happy.
Working on a story ...
Drinking to just be able to kill the rage from the job that is killing my social life.Drinking makes me happy.Working on a story about my job that kills the soul.In a years time I fucking hope that I finish my ``work story`` and I`m not at my shity job and I`m participating more in the wonderful board.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70634#Comment_706342008-07-26T22:50:47-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Rootfireemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1551
tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...
Last ...
tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...

Last night it rained like hell, thundered like the voice of an Angry God that was ready to smite some unbelievers...tonight, it's just a quiet sprinkling. This time, next year... I want to have created something. Not a painting here or there when I find a few hours to myself, or the occasional sketch. I want to do something that will make people stop and stare. Not for a 6-second burst, but for LONGER. I want to write something worth while, something that makes people stop thinking about their work day, sucks'em in and makes them ache when it's over because, damn, it's fuckin' over and they have to WAIT until I write something again for more...

The problem isn't a lack of ability. I damn well know I can do these things, to some degree or other. It's finding time. I have so many ideas... but enough whinging- something will happen, or it won't, and however way it'll go, I'll have no one to blame but myself.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70637#Comment_706372008-07-26T23:10:34-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Gillianhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3693
@mercurialblonde
At the end of the day, you are who you are, and little pronouns slips or non-slips by strangers really don't have much bearing on it.
I know this but it's good sometimes to ...

At the end of the day, you are who you are, and little pronouns slips or non-slips by strangers really don't have much bearing on it.

I know this but it's good sometimes to hear it from someone other than myself.Thank you.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70639#Comment_706392008-07-26T23:15:33-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00tim12shttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=737
Update - blew off cycling in Golden Gate Park... we both passed out in front of the telly.
Woke up, had bacon sandwiches for dinner, watched 'Be Kind, Rewind'. Lovely movie.
Off out to The ...
Woke up, had bacon sandwiches for dinner, watched 'Be Kind, Rewind'. Lovely movie.

Tix for El Vez this Wednesday. My birthday treat!]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70644#Comment_706442008-07-26T23:29:28-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00Jake Montefuhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3187
@ Sara 013
Awesome, totally cool watch mutation and photo!
Awesome, totally cool watch mutation and photo!]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70645#Comment_706452008-07-26T23:47:29-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00stonedephhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3412
I think that the saddest thing.... that occurred to me today.. is..... that I,... being a product.... of my environment,... can. can... only manage to oc.cassionally look back... on my actions.. with ...
I wish... the second law of thermodynamics... was a law I could break.... I take solace though.... in knowing.. that there is no wrong for which I can commit... just harms. that I try very.. hard... to avoid..........]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70646#Comment_706462008-07-26T23:53:38-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00allanahttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019
@vanessa: i have tested out PD a few times and it'd be like learning Max all over again - which i'm sure i will commit to do, sometime in the next year. for now, i'll just dream big. and i'm trying ...
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70647#Comment_706472008-07-27T00:00:25-05:002008-07-27T00:08:16-05:00Gekkohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3435
@ Gilian : My appearance seems to be well into the androgynous zone.
Well isn't that the future of our species anyway, once the sexist bits and habits will have ceased to comfort some of us, once ...
Well isn't that the future of our species anyway, once the sexist bits and habits will have ceased to comfort some of us, once being a man or a woman will not interfere on our personnal, social and working life. Once being a woman won't mean being paid less for the same job. Once being a man won't mean testosterone shite. Once manhood and womanhood won't mean pizza, gross jokes and male bonding vs small talk, windowshopping and bitching. I'm talking about a very far future I'm afraid.Anyway, Gilian, whatever that guy meant, he was trying to be nice with you.

Oh, that, and I've started to learn Irish. Stop the press.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70648#Comment_706482008-07-27T00:14:45-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00WaxPoetichttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1809
this afternoon i gave up on the rain, typed up journals from last year and added a new item to my list of rules: i like reading my writing when it doesn't suck or whine, so the deal is - write shit i ...
the leaves on one of the trees outside cast a shadow on the door to the strange garage in the backyard that looks like Bast.

i'm most of the way through a bottle of cheap chenin blanc and sharing space with a cat. next year i fully anticipate a variation on the same theme.

one of my best friends is going to Poland with her husband. i will be in Tuscon when they get back. i am nervous about being away from them for four weeks, and aware that it will pass. i will miss her. my mother's MS is making her speech more slurred. there is nothing in the world that would make it okay with her if i put anything off on her account, but i'm getting scared and want to be near her.

now that i've surprised myself, i'm gonna go finish that bottle and sleep.

good days, whitechapel...]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70650#Comment_706502008-07-27T00:24:08-05:002015-03-31T13:11:43-05:00kozmundhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=547
Just got back from a week of fishing on a wilderness lake in Canada. A 77 square mile lake that's fairly unaccessible with only a handful of cabins on it. We had to take a float plane into it, which ...
Our last night there, a good friend and I decided to stay up late, turn off the generator, consume some of the leftovers and sit outside. To the north, a thunder storm was rolling across the horizon. Directly above, the sky was clear with no light pollution at all. We're talking about something like not a single light in a 30 mile radius. We sat out, smoking someone else's Cuban Cohibas, drinking someone else's aged single malt, shooting the shit, and enjoying the show. At some point, my friend mentioned that seeing so many stars so clearly made him wish more than ever that he had a space ship.

About 15 minutes later, while he was peeing in the bushes, I hollered to him. He came back and asked what I was going on about. I pointed out to him that the brightest object in the sky was currently working its way from horizon to horizon. A long pause. Finally, when it started getting low, he asked, awed and confused, "What the hell is that?"

I had the honor of telling him that it was The International Space Station.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70652#Comment_706522008-07-27T00:28:08-05:002015-03-31T13:11:44-05:00JP Valdecantoshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=603
Hi, everyone!!!
I used to be one of those guys who thought that meeting people thru the internet was for losers, oddly, me not being a sports guy or some shit like that! I've always been a rather ...
I used to be one of those guys who thought that meeting people thru the internet was for losers, oddly, me not being a sports guy or some shit like that! I've always been a rather shy guy, but nevertheless prefered direct human contact.And for a month, I've been having this kind of "relationship" with this incredible woman, via Messenger, who actually lives like 2000 miles away from me!! And now I want by all means to kill myself! I mean, I, myself, want to catch this skinny guy and punch him to unconciousness!! This skinny guy who is ME!!! How ridiculous this situation can be??! How absurd???But then again, I've been watching and enjoying this interactive community, like many others, and, well, I'm actually clueless!

So, fuck me sideways!

Love you all!!!!!!!!]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70654#Comment_706542008-07-27T00:40:49-05:002015-03-31T13:11:44-05:00willreaveshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1422
A year from now: I want to be on the other side of this continent, or on another.
Vent: I'm piss arse drunk at the moment, the result of some finely distilled spirits and a whole load of ...
Vent: I'm piss arse drunk at the moment, the result of some finely distilled spirits and a whole load of low-quality swill. The girl I've pined after (fruitlessly) for years is passed out in my living room, underneath a blanket and with pillow. We had a birthday part for my roommate's fiance tonight, which was a rousing success. It's only in these hours when there's no one else in the loft that I curse myself and spit spiteful words at what might have been.

Otherwise, at the moment I'm on a truce with the universe. I can take or leave things as they stand. Give me something to love or something to hate; I cannot stand this equilibrium.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70655#Comment_706552008-07-27T00:42:05-05:002015-03-31T13:11:44-05:00Gillianhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3693
@Gekko
Anyway, Gilian, whatever that guy meant, he was trying to be nice with you.
He was nice and I have no bad feelings against him. It's just I wish I knew what was going on from his point ...

Anyway, Gilian, whatever that guy meant, he was trying to be nice with you.

He was nice and I have no bad feelings against him. It's just I wish I knew what was going on from his point of view. Did he 'clock' me? Or not? Was he asking about later for a reason? Or was he just talking? None of this really matters but part of me can't help but wonder.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70656#Comment_706562008-07-27T00:54:55-05:002015-03-31T13:11:44-05:00Skeevinshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4101
Speaking of, uh, love, I performed as the Tin Woodsman in a production of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz tonight.
There's a lot of things about that character that I just don't get. He was ...

There's a lot of things about that character that I just don't get. He was originally a regular guy whose axe got cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East and accidentally chopped off all of his body parts in turn, thereby creating the need for an obscene amount of tin prosthetics. So basically, he's this lumbering parody of humanity, forced to live as an immortal golem the rest of his days...and yet, when given the opportunity to ask the most powerful person in the land for a single favor, he asks for a heart. At no point does he stop to think "Hey, maybe it would be a good idea if I asked to not be tin anymore. Because there are a good many organs that will improve my odds at a relationship in addition to a heart. And being human again will give me access to the full catalogue." Nope, all he wants is a heart. To me, even the sweet embrace of death would seem like a better plan. What's he going to do if he meets a nice lady? There's only so much metal fingers can do with out rusting.

Which brings me to point #2: tin doesn't rust. So either he has iron joints, or that fucker is one hell of a lubrication freak.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70660#Comment_706602008-07-27T02:51:55-05:002015-03-31T13:11:44-05:00whiskeyduckhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2529
@Gillian:
Whether or not he "clocked" you, he obviously found you attractive enough to make a clumsy pass at you. Are you worried that he might have been a 'chaser?
Whether or not he "clocked" you, he obviously found you attractive enough to make a clumsy pass at you. Are you worried that he might have been a 'chaser?]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70664#Comment_706642008-07-27T03:40:56-05:002015-03-31T13:11:44-05:00Don Kellyhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=377
Tired. Just took some of the kids out for a small celebration. It's the penultimate night of my current restaurant/nightclub. I'm bringing my act to the South Bay where the white folks hear words ...
Haven't done a "where will I be in a year" estimation in a while. As I'm thinking about it I'll give you something to hold me to. In a year I will stop bartending. I'll be 38 and that seems like a fine time to get out. Of course, so did 35 and 36. Never really thought about it here at the dawn of 37.

I have no screams. A mouth, but no screams. I've implemented lots of changes over the last few weeks, so there's been no time for maddening things. A contentedness helps to leaden my eyelids. Wanted to end on some profound thought about coworkers, small, mutual affects, and leaving a mark, but can't muster it at 20 to 4. Sorry to leave everyone drooling for my wisdom. Maybe after a nap.

Best regards.]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70683#Comment_706832008-07-27T06:40:51-05:002015-03-31T13:11:44-05:00leechhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4102
So going to the park to commit shit drawing today no less than FOUR scum-tards threw a ball at me so that their dog would run over and they could chase after it and say something along the lines of ...
What is wrong with these scum fucks? is it so hard to just come up and say "hey, what you drawing?" or what ever, sure I'll still think you're a douche for interupting, but slightly less of one that needs to throw a ball at someone to start a conversation...people don't apreciate it, I know I've tried it.....Ok maybe it wasn't exactly in a park and instead of a ball it was a glass bottle....and I was heroically drunk, but the concept is similar.

One year from now? I'll probably be preparing for the exhibition at the end of tafe(If I don't fail this year), hopefully I'll be better skilled, a little more confident and much less paranoid.]]>